This game uses Adobe Flash and isn't available to play on many mobile devices. If you're on a mobile device, see below for other games and quizzes that you can play.

I'm on a laptop or desktop computer but still can't play. Please help!

Even if you have Adobe Flash installed, it may not be properly enabled (yes, even if you just played this game yesterday...it's weird). Please open the following link and go through the instructions to ensure that everything is set up properly: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html.

This is crazy. I have Adobe Flash enabled according to the site above and I still can't play your games. Every other site works fine except yours. What's going on?!

Yes, even if you have Adobe Flash enabled properly in your browser, you may not have it enabled for this specific page. Yes, we know, it's a pain. Each browser has a different set of instructions for whitelisting pages, so we can't include them here, but you can find information by searching for "how to control flash for specific websites" in your favorite internet web search.

Why do you use Flash?

Tell us about it. These Flash games aren't developed directly by Merriam-Webster so we haven't been able to update them. We are looking to replace these games with HTML5 versions as soon as we can.